afflict

[Af*flict·]

To afflict is to cause suffering, pain, or misery. It’s often associated with medical conditions. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is most likely to afflict someone who spends many hours every day typing on our computers.

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To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

Verb
cause bodily suffering to

Verb
cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"

Verb
cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"

v. t.
To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

v. t.
To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.

v. t.
To make low or humble.

p. p. & a.
Afflicted.

Afflict

Af*flict" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Afflicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Afflicting.] [L. afflictus, p. p. of affigere to cast down, deject; ad + fligere to strike: cf. OF. aflit, afflict, p. p. Cf. Flagellate.] 1. To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton. 2. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.

They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.

That which was the worst now least afflicts me.

3. To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.

Syn. -- To trouble; grieve; pain; distress; harass; torment; wound; hurt.

Afflict

Af*flict", p. p. & a. [L. afflictus, p. p.] Afflicted. [Obs.] Becon.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

Afflicted.

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Usage Examples

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

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Other Usage Examples

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.